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== Equiano and Capitalism ==

Equiano had just like any other slaves a rough life, but what made Equiano salient known from any others among the ship where he was a cargo, it was his fortune that Robert King purchased him as a slave. King saw the ways that Equiano was able to handle business. Ultimately, King allowed Equiano to purchase his freedom. From here, Equiano then traveled to England where he gets to be part of a better project, where he became and abolitionist. Capitalism is part of the bigger picture that Equiano forms part of and benefited from. Equiano uses capitalism during his days as a slave, and until the day he died. Using the established industries through his life, he is able to earn money using the laws for supply and demand where he was it best suited him. Despite the fact of his race, he conducted business at the ports which provided him with enough money to purchase his freedom. The act of Equiano purchasing his freedom falls beneath the laws that governed the slaves during the 1700s. The flourishing economy that allowed slave owners to trade and sales slaves was the scent of a capitalist economy, a supply and demand structure that set prices for slaves. The way that Equiano fits the bigger picture, this case capitalism, is that his freedom was a production of it. As a freeman, Equiano continued to trade, and he even formed part of skilled-based industries such as the writing industry where he later wrote and published his memoir. The private ownership of slaves, the means of production where Equiano worked on the fields of South Carolina, from the point of his trade in the Caribbean, the wage labor system that allowed his freedom, the price system which valued merchandise, the market system, and the accumulation of wealth are all aspects of capitalism. Olaudah Equiano formed part of all the above aspects of capitalism, he was privately owned by different masters. He was a slave working on cotton picking fields. He was sold to a captain of the Royal Navy. The, he was sold to Robert King who allowed him to purchase his freedom, King also provided Equiano with education. Equiano saved as much as he could, travel to England and as a freeman he formed part of the abolitionist movement in England.